Hi! I'm Sjoerd, a coach & consultant with a drive to help organizations & people find better ways of working. I do this by coaching, consulting & training in various methods, tools & practices for continuous improvement, always making sure to start from a good understanding of the Why of things. Tools in my toolkit include Scrum, SAFe, LeSS and other approaches that align with the Agile manifesto and a growth mindset.
Currently I am very much into the Product Owner side of things. I help them focus on value delivery through solving a customer's problem with a quality product.
I'm the host of the Product Owner Podcast https://twitter.com/po_podcast and blog irregularly on linkedin & sjoerdly.com
In this post I want to explore whether the Increment, a core concept to Scrum, needs to be changed for Scrum in a non-IT context. In future posts, I will do the same for the Definition of Done, or other concepts that may provide a better understanding of Scrum when applied to non-IT context.
Most organizations are using Scrum, however, many of them feel like the agility of their organization has degraded, and they might be right! Often, using Scrum starts out as a way to improve development efforts coordinated within an IT division or department, but that is not the most effective organization structure to potentially get maximum benefit from Scrum.
By Chris Lukassen & Sjoerd Kranendonk
By now, most organisations are using Scrum, however, many of them feel like the agility of their organisation has degraded, and they might be right! Often, using Scrum starts out as a way to improve development efforts coordinated within an IT division or department, but that is not the most effective organization structure to potentially get maximum benefit from Scrum. Inclusive Scrum is about looking at the full value chain and organizing your Product development effort around that. Whereas low agility Scrum might actually hurt your agility.
The purpose of Scrum is to deliver Increments of releasable functionality. So at each Sprint Review, a “Done” Increment is required to make transparent the progress made by the team.
